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\n Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar will miss the entire 2026 season after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs for the second time. The 33-year-old player will lose his $15 million salary and become just the sixth MLB player to receive a full-season PED suspension since penalties increased in 2014.\n <\/p>\n
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Atlanta Braves outfielder and designated hitter Jurickson Profar will be sidelined for an entire season following his second positive drug test for banned performance-enhancing substances, according to a Tuesday report from ESPN.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old veteran will lose his complete $15 million earnings for the 2026 campaign and cannot participate in playoff games or this month\u2019s World Baseball Classic, where the Curacao-born player was scheduled to represent the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
This makes Profar only the sixth major league player to receive a complete season ban for PED violations since baseball officials strengthened penalties for repeat offenders in 2014, ESPN noted.<\/p>\n
Following his first All-Star selection with San Diego in 2024, Profar inked a three-year deal worth $42 million with Atlanta this past January. During his debut season with the Braves, he posted a .245 batting average along with 14 home runs and 43 RBIs across 80 contests, after completing an 80-game ban that ran from March 31 through July 1.<\/p>\n
His original punishment resulted from a positive test for human chorionic gonadotropin, a pregnancy hormone that can elevate testosterone levels in the body.<\/p>\n
After undergoing sports hernia surgery during the off-season, Profar was slated to transition from left field duties to designated hitter for the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n
Once ranked as baseball\u2019s top prospect when he joined the Texas Rangers as a 19-year-old in 2012, Profar holds career statistics of .245 batting average with 125 home runs and 487 RBIs spanning 1,199 games across multiple teams including Texas (2012-13, 2016-18), Oakland (2019), San Diego (2020-24), Colorado (2023), and Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Throughout his career, injuries have limited Profar to playing more than 150 games in just two seasons, including missing both the 2014 and 2015 seasons entirely due to shoulder problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar will miss the entire 2026 season after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[75638,75639,191,46,4166,5,192,75632,75640,75634,75635,75633,75636,4,75637],"class_list":{"0":"post-623377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-102-3","9":"tag-102-3fm","10":"tag-atlanta","11":"tag-atlanta-braves","12":"tag-atlantabraves","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-braves","15":"tag-fine-day","16":"tag-fine-day-102-3","17":"tag-fine-day-fm","18":"tag-fine-day-media","19":"tag-fine-day-radio","20":"tag-have-a-fine-day","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-weller-radio"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116227427168056108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}